Join us for our Art, Books and Culture Group
on Saturday 18th March, 11.15am (for about an hour or so)
at The Beecroft Art Gallery
Victoria Avenue, Southend SS2 6EX
when we’ll be discussing the revival of mural painting during the inter-war years.
Picking up where we left our discussion of Vanessa Bell’s art last month, we’ll begin by looking at the decorative wall-paintings at Charleston Farmhouse (above, left) and Berwick Church that Bell undertook alongside Duncan Grant (and others).
This will lead us back to earlier Bloomsbury murals and into the ‘revival’ of decorative wall painting during the inter-war years including work
by Evelyn Dunbar, such as The Brockley School Murals [detail here of The Country Girl and the Pail of Milk, 1933-6]:
and by Phyllis Bray, such as her re-discovered People’s Palace mural at Queen Mary’s University, mid-1930s:
and we will also mention, especially given our location, the works made by local artist Alan Sorrell for Southend Library in the 1930s, such as The Founding of Prittlewell Priory:
As ever, there will be plenty to look at & discuss – all welcome!
Admission is £10 on the door, and there will be coffee & biscuits to follow.
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